Lahore has the single largest concentration of medical colleges in Pakistan — five public UHS-affiliated colleges plus four private options, all inside one city. This is what a Lahore-based UHS-MDCAT applicant is actually shortlisting against.
Public colleges (UHS-MDCAT)
- King Edward Medical University — 350 MBBS, 94.87% closing merit. Pakistan's oldest medical college, founded 1860, and consistently the highest closing merit in the country.
- Allama Iqbal Medical College — 350 MBBS, 94.45% closing merit.
- Services Institute of Medical Sciences — 150 MBBS, 94.23% closing merit.
- Ameer-ud-Din Medical College (PGMI) — 100 MBBS, 94.01% closing merit.
- Fatima Jinnah Medical University — 300 MBBS, 93.81% closing merit. Pakistan's only women-only public medical university.
Private colleges (PMDC-MDCAT / NUMS)
- CMH Lahore Medical College — 150 MBBS, 50 BDS, 86.8% closing merit, admitted through NUMS rather than UHS.
- FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry — 150 MBBS, 50 BDS, 80.5% closing merit.
- Lahore Medical & Dental College — 150 MBBS, 50 BDS, 78.6% closing merit.
- Rashid Latif Medical College — 100 MBBS, 76.2% closing merit.
What this means for your shortlist
Every Lahore public college closes above 93.5% — the tightest cluster of high-merit public colleges anywhere in Pakistan. If your projected aggregate lands in the high-80s to low-90s, Lahore's public colleges are likely out of reach and the private options above (76–87% range) are your realistic path within the city, rather than commuting to a lower-merit public seat elsewhere.
See the full medical colleges directory, or check exactly where your aggregate lands with the MDCAT aggregate calculator.